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Evergreen High School’s Diversity Day is April 24, and this year organizers want the community to get involved.

Diversity Day promotes awareness among students about different people and cultures. Even though it sounds a bit corny, organizers hope that education will bring understanding and ultimately create a world that isn’t built on judgment and hate.

This year’s Diversity Day coincides with the national Day Without Hate, an effort to stop bullying in schools.

Downtown Evergreen has a blend of established businesses and new ones putting down roots, and their customers sometimes struggle to find a parking place and walk precariously along Main Street where the sidewalks end.

During a March 24 meeting on potential updates to a community plan for Evergreen, Jeffco planner Russell Clark asked attendees to identify “the good and the bad” in the downtown area.

Later, a reporter asked downtown business owners for their own answers to that question.

Evergreen resident Jean Wells is the first-place winner of the annual Ice Melt Barrel Contest sponsored by Mountain Foothills Rotary. Wells won $1,000 for most closely predicting the time and date that the Ice Melt Barrel dropped into Evergreen Lake.

Her estimate of 1:05:10 p.m. March 21 was within a few minutes of the actual time of 12:50:23 p.m. determined by members of the club.

Other winners also came close to guessing the exact time the barrel descended into the lake on March 21.

Jason Leslie has been hired as financial controller for the Evergreen Park and Recreation District. He is replacing Karen Messler, who left the district earlier this year to accept a part-time position.
Before joining EPRD, Leslie was the controller for the Commerce City government. During his seven-year tenure with the city, Leslie was responsible for streamlining and implementing processes to accommodate the growing community.

One man was killed early Monday in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 that snarled westbound traffic for several hours near the Lookout Mountain exit.

The 59-year-old male driver of a 2006 Lexus SUV died at the scene, said State Patrol Trooper Nate Reid. The driver was from Littleton. No other information about the driver or the crash was immediately available.

The “big reveal” — as Evergreen Middle School art teacher Ann Simpson called it — of eighth-graders’ projects on Friday was very revealing.

The art students’ projects — 6-inch-by-6-inch glass dishes that they spent days meticulously creating — were under a sheet on a table in the art room, ready to be seen for the first time. To make the moment even more memorable, Simpson brought a music student with a snare drum to supply a drumroll as the sheet was lifted.

Evergreen High School baseball coach Steve Jones preaches the name on the front of the jersey — Cougars — more so than the one on the back.

In his words, there are no individual stars, and it’s definitely not about any single player. His Cougars showed that and more in a three-game spring break trip to Phoenix, winning two of three games to return to Colorado with a 4-1 record.